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— TC2018-2021 Our Vision

Next Week @ TC - 9th November 2018

To the TC Community,

Resource Centre 2.0

I’d like to begin this email to share some exciting news about our new Resource Centre. We met with the architects and project managers on Thursday where they shared with us the final designs and drawings that have been approved by the Victorian Schools Building Authority. The Resource Centre 2.0 will have a very similar function to our current Resource Centre, and will have a slightly increased size. We will be handing over our current Resource Centre to the builders for demolition on the 10th of December, meaning that the next month will be spent moving the equipment that we are keeping across to S Wing or into storage, so that S Wing is all set up and ready to go as our temporary Resource Centre for the beginning of 2019. It is expected that the new Resource Centre will be ready for handover to us in the middle of May, 2019.

There will be more information to follow on the Resource Centre 2.0, but I will end this message with a scanned architects drawing of what the building may look like when finished. This is the same drawing that has already been showed to students and staff in Community Meetings.

This Weeks Announcements

Futures Festival Announcement from the EAG

S Wing, Portables and Unit 4 Exams

Final WASHI for 2018 Released today

Sports Update

TC Farm Mini Market

Last Weeks Announcements

TC Upstream Challenge

Student Survey for respectful relationships

Sports Update

Previous Weeks Announcements

Junior Social

Sports Update

Feedback @ TC

Whole School Hoodies Available including new 2019 Designs

Arrangements for the Beginning of 2019

Donations for Permaculture Garden

Welcome to our new community members

Student Leadership Opportunities for 2019

Attention 2019 Grads

Unit 4 Exam Preparation Attendance for FLE Students

Key Dates for term 4

This Weeks Announcements

Futures Festival Announcement - From Our Environmental Action Group

Hi TC Community,

The Environmental Action Group are excited to say that we will soon be having our second Futures Festival here at TC. On the 22nd of November with loads of funky music, delicious food and cool environmental stalls. We’re organising this festival to celebrate our amazing environment and help spread awareness and love about conservation programs running in our country. There will be environmental speakers between music sets, fun circus and basket weaving workshops, and much much more.

Bring all your friends from all over and your families too. For 2019 entry students it’s a brilliant way to get to know the community you’ll be joining.

Come with a hungry stomach, some money for some cool merchandise and listening ears for some of our schools best bands!

-EAG

S Wing, Portables and Exams

Please note that as of Monday Unit 4 exams will be held in the Portable. Please note this for your exams, or check Compass to see where your lessons have been moved to.

Final WASHI For 2018 Has Been Released

The final WASHI for 2018 has been released. This can be found on Compass.

Sports Update

Our Gala Day is fast approaching for futsal, handball, tag rugby and ultimate frisbee on 21st November. A reminder that consent and payment is due 5 days prior to the event in order to be able to participate.

Sports training continues this week during SSDP and will appear on students compass if they have signed up. Training and competition are taking place on:

MONDAY- All 2019 Sports Captains/ Leaders will have a meeting in the reading room.

Lunchtime training continues this week with the following taking place:

MONDAY- STU/ TTRI- Table tennis (S wing)/ Tag rugby (Oval)

BWA/ EHUM- Handball (SC)

TUESDAY- JST/ BHUB- Futsal (SC)

THURSDAY- TDI/ SLOC- Volleyball (SC)

TC Farm Mini Market

Next Wednesday on the 14th of November, TC farm is holding our first TC farm mini market. there will be plants, compost, fresh produce, eggs and more. it will be located near the green house, just past the astro turf. come on down have a look between 1:30-4:00.

Last Weeks Announcements

TC Upstream Challenge

6 members of the TC Community have signed up for the Upstream Challenge to raise money for Fareshare – Fighting Hunger. This Challenge requires us to walk 20km along the Yarra River from Yarra Flats to Donvale on Saturday, November 10. Through our student excursions to the Fareshare Kitchen we have developed a huge amount of respect for Fareshare and the work they do in rescuing food, educating the community and fighting hunger in Melbourne and we hope to raise at least $2000 to help them continue to do so.

Search for us by individual name (we each need a minimum of $200) or by team (Templestowe College). The team consists of Wes Pfitzner, Meg Bailey, Victor DE KOSTER, Wendy Gooley, Joe Lambert and Tim Lambert.

In addition, some students are organising a bake stall to help raise the funds next Thursday so be sure to support us by buying something.

Thanks,

TC Upstream Challenge team

Student survey for Respectful Relationships evaluation

Dear TC Families

Your child has been invited to take part in a survey as part of the state-wide evaluation of Respectful Relationships, this will occur during SSDP in week 6. This is because Templestowe College is participating in the Respectful Relationships initiative. Victoria’s Respectful Relationships initiative supports school leaders, teachers and our school communities to promote and model respect and gender equality – and to teach our children how to build healthy relationships, and develop resilience and confidence. As part of the Respectful Relationships initiative schools are supported to take a whole school approach to embedding a culture of respect and equality across our entire school community. As part of an evaluation of the program, students are invited to complete a short survey in class. The purpose of the survey is to test the impact of Respectful Relationships and allow students to provide feedback on the program.

Attached is further information on the survey, and an opt-out consent form. If you would not like your child to participate in the survey, please complete and return the opt-out consent form to the school. Regardless of whether you return the form, your child will be able to choose to not participate in the survey, and can choose to stop participating in the survey at any time.

Sports Update

We had another great week of sporting results for TC with our Under 14 Girls winning the Region Basketball Titles and our Intermediate Boys coming runners up in table tennis. We are also pleased to announce our 2019 Sports Captains/ Leaders who will be working to build on the success of our sporting program next year. The team consists of:

Lunchtime training continues this week with the following taking place:

MONDAY- STU/ TTRI- S WING Table tennis/ Tag rugby

BWA/ EHUM- SC

TUESDAY- JST/ BHUB- SC Futsal

THURSDAY- TDI/ SLOC- SC Last Weeks Announcements

Junior Social - 29th November

TC offers a fantastic event for our students 15 years and under.

Looking for the perfect celebration to end 2018 on a high? TC has you covered. The Junior Social is a fun night to dress up, dance with friends and socialise with the TC community. Soft drink, chilled water and a light supper are included. There is a cost of $20 per ticket. Payments and consent can be made via Compass. Payment by 16th of November.

All students must be signed in and released at the end of the evening to an adult. If other commitments mean late arrival or early pick up, please pass on this information to Sally Holloway.

If any students are interested in helping to organise decorations, choosing music and any activities running on the night, please contact the RC team.

Feedback @ TC

I would like to remind everyone that we have a feedback line available to all. This feedback line is the email address feedback@tc.vic.edu.au and this goes directly to myself. Whilst I spend a huge amount of time of the day talking to students, this offers an opportunity for parents, or those students that I do not get to see during the day, to be able to give feedback.

Previous Weeks Announcements

Whole School Hoodies Available

Although we are a non-uniform school, TC offers branded hoodies from REFORM which are warm and comfortable for the cooler months. This order includes NEW designs including a zip hoodie and a ¼ zip fleece. Please find link to ‘How to Order’ document and link below to start ordering!

Arrangements for the Beginning of 2019

We have been asked about the arrangements for the beginning of 2019, as some families are planning their return from Holidays. The plan is:

Tuesday 29th January - Staff Professional Development - Student Free Day

Wednesday 30th January - Staff Professional Development - Student Free Day

Thursday 31st January - Classes are running for Entry Students and all VCE Classes

Friday 1st February - All students return and all classes running

Donations for Permaculture Garden

Our permaculture team is again looking for some interesting items for junkscaping and garden art. If you can assist with any of the following items, call Drew on 0412 400 875:

Old broken tools, either carpentry or gardening

Damaged circular saw blades

Small (12 or 16 inch) bicycle wheels

Plastic stacking worm farms

Pressed steel bathtubs

Red clay pavers (65mm thick preferred)

We are also looking for volunteer who knows how to spin wool, to help some of our students. Preferred times would be Wednesday afternoons.

WELCOME TO OUR NEW COMMUNITY MEMBERS

Welcome to our new community members who will be receiving this update for the first time. We like to start to send this to our 2019 community as it gives you an idea of the sort of things happening at TC on a weekly basis. We have this communication that gives announcements on upcoming events, or just general messages for the community. It is currently a very important form of communication for us and we recommend that you always check this each week.

A lot of the announcements may not be relevant to you just yet. For example if you are an Entry student of 2019 there will be very few that are. We will also continue to contact you through email as well. If you have any questions over anything that you read, please do not hesitate to contact someone at TC.

Student Leadership 2019

The file below contains information around the following leadership roles @ TC in 2019:

ATTENTION 2019 GRADUATES

You are now able to order your 2019 Hoodies and Rugby Jumpers! Please follow the information provided in the attachment to place your order. We currently have a size range of Hoodies in the Resource Centre and Rugby Jumpers will be available in a few weeks.